The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 36
When the student had said good night he suddenly stood still, reading the sheet of paper in which the cheese had been wrapped.
Who acts: student · What happens: say, stand, read, wrap · To what, where: student, sheet, cheese, paper · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (student), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 student | det |
| 3 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | aux |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 night | amod |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 9 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 10 stood | advmod |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 stood | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reading | punct |
| 13 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 stood | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sheet | det |
| 15 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reading | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 paper | case |
| 17 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sheet | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 wrapped | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cheese | det |
| 21 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wrapped | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 wrapped | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 wrapped | aux:pass |
| 24 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 paper | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the student | night | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | student | still | suddenly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | read | gerund | student not said here | the sheet of paper | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheet=Topic | ||||
| 4 | wrap | past · perfect · passive | the cheese | paper | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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